Monday, April 14, 2014

A Baptism!!!

Hello all! I hope everything is good back home! This week has been
pretty good. It has rained quite a bit and I think that rainy season is
starting to hit. It actually rained hard enough that a section of the
wall around the church fell because the rain caused the soil to come
loose underneath it. But this week has been good... we were able to
teach a lot and Julie was able to be baptized yesterday. That was
sweet! It was hard to get the baptismal font filled... we tried to
start filling it on Saturday
morning but the water was not flowing through the pipes... luckily it
started flowing by the end of the night... blessings of the Lord. Ghana
seems to like to not have running water or electricity... but the
Lord's work will still go forward.

One cool thing that Elder McKeon did this week is that last Monday night
he stayed up a little because he had to prepare an instruction for
District Meeting on Tuesday.
But after I went to bed he but sticky notes all over my desk of things
about me.. pretty cool. He is a sweet guy and I enjoy being companions
with him.

This week has been fun, the only downside is that I have been sick since Saturday...
completely out of energy, but the Lord is blessing me. Giving me the
strength I need to do the things to do his work here. I am just glad
that I have been able to do everything that I needed to do. I was
worried that I would not be able to make to Julie's baptism but I was
good enough that I was able to go to church and the baptism that
followed.

So I have recently started reading the Doctrine and Covenants...
it talks a lot about missionary work and how there is so much of it
that we can do around us. I believe in four or five of the first 15
chapters it talks about how there is a marvelous work before us and that
if we thrust in our sickle that great things will come. We must all do
our best, try our hardest and do all that we can to help this work go
forward. Share this gospel with all those around us. I have learned
that the scriptures are a great source of knowledge... we must study
from them and then apply them to our lives... this is how we will grow
and learn!

I love you all! Sorry that this email was short but hope you all have a wonderful week!